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This Week in Retro

Get up to speed with the hottest news in the world of retro gaming and computing. Submit your own stories and upvote your favourites at r/ThisWeekinRetro. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.

A relaxed and light hearted chat on the subjects that YOU choose on our Reddit page. With the occasional special guest and a Community Question Of The Week where you get to have your say and share stories.

Leisure Games Video Games Technology
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
58 minutes
Episodes
235
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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The Atari 400 Returns - This Week In Retro 154

The Atari 400 Returns - This Week In Retro 154

Classic Sega arcade games have been ranked, do we agree? The next mini console will be the Atari 400 (not technically a console) and a PlayStation console is brutally forced into a SNES case....its a…

01:07:29  |   Sat 20 Jan 2024
2024 Is The Year Of Retro Computing - This Week In Retro 153

2024 Is The Year Of Retro Computing - This Week In Retro 153

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Retro Computing in 2024 is set to be great. We take a look at just a few of the projects coming this year. Did you ever wonder why …

01:33:46  |   Sat 13 Jan 2024
2023 Unseen Bits - This Week In Retro 152

2023 Unseen Bits - This Week In Retro 152

That wraps up another year of This Week In Retro. Here are some unseen bits that we collected during the past 12 months.

Thank you very much for watching/listening and for getting involved in the com…

00:30:11  |   Sat 30 Dec 2023
A Retro Christmas - This Week In Retro 151

A Retro Christmas - This Week In Retro 151

An IT shop in Canterbury might fool you into thinking you are shopping in the 1990s. Can arcade games ported to home systems actually be better than the originals? We chat about some of our favourite…

01:05:33  |   Sat 23 Dec 2023
The SEGA Neptune Lives - This Week In Retro 150

The SEGA Neptune Lives - This Week In Retro 150

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The SEGA Neptune, the could have been Mega Drive/Genesis with X32 hardware built in has been created, and it looks awesome. Can AI …

01:13:07  |   Sat 16 Dec 2023
Play DOS Games On A Steam Deck - This Week In Retro 149

Play DOS Games On A Steam Deck - This Week In Retro 149

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You can now play DOS games on your Steam Deck, yay! The good old film camera seems to be making a bit of a comeback and as Half-Lif…

01:10:33  |   Sat 09 Dec 2023
Checkmate Commodore - This Week In Retro 148

Checkmate Commodore - This Week In Retro 148

Doom and Doom II remade for the Atari Jaguar, a discussion about image scalers for retro gaming and do you know what Commodore's 2nd computer actually was? 

All that and the Atari 2600+, news in brie…

01:05:34  |   Sat 25 Nov 2023
Retro Gaming Has CRASHED! - This Week In Retro 147

Retro Gaming Has CRASHED! - This Week In Retro 147

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The gang is all back together again an…

01:03:10  |   Sat 18 Nov 2023
The A500 Maxi Announced - This Week In Retro 146

The A500 Maxi Announced - This Week In Retro 146

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We return after a week away with a fantastic guest in Iain Lee, he has launched his own retro podcast called Random Access Memories…

01:01:25  |   Sat 11 Nov 2023
Raspberry Pi Causes An Atari ST PiStorm - This Week In Retro 145

Raspberry Pi Causes An Atari ST PiStorm - This Week In Retro 145

The PiStorm is coming to the Atari ST, joining the Amiga with the high spec/low cost CPU accelerator. Special guest Mark Fixes Stuff joins us this week to talk about that and our other stories. They …

01:11:59  |   Sat 28 Oct 2023
You Got The Touch - This Week In Retro 144

You Got The Touch - This Week In Retro 144

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Rees joins us to find out if the Last Exterminator is able to hold a candle to Duke Nukem. We are used to restoring the plastics on…

00:53:08  |   Sat 21 Oct 2023
Rebuilding Computer Space - This Week In Retro 143

Rebuilding Computer Space - This Week In Retro 143

We have a special guest this week as Tony from OzRetrocomp returns to chat about retro media bought about by an awesome basement video collection which has been designed to replicate video stores of …

01:17:43  |   Sat 14 Oct 2023
Cutting The Tape - This Week In Retro 142

Cutting The Tape - This Week In Retro 142

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Retro gaming is becoming more popular on YouTube, is this just because more people use it or is there an underlying trend there? Di…

01:19:33  |   Sat 07 Oct 2023
Retro Computer Pack In Games - This Week In Retro 141

Retro Computer Pack In Games - This Week In Retro 141

Which games came with your retro computer? We talk about some we remember. Dave has taken a look at what Septandy is. Finally, a clever individual has managed to improve the 3D visuals of the N64 by …

01:02:47  |   Sat 30 Sep 2023
Flight Sims ARE Cool - This Week In Retro 140

Flight Sims ARE Cool - This Week In Retro 140

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We are back to take a look at how a Sky Skipper cab, apparently the rarest of the Nintendo arcade machines, has been recreated. One…

01:07:53  |   Sat 23 Sep 2023
Over Promise, Under Deliver - This Week In Retro 139

Over Promise, Under Deliver - This Week In Retro 139

Looks like Microsoft is saying goodbye to WordPad, the often overlooked little brother of Word. Do you miss the old days when you could only watch your favourite TV shows when they were scheduled to …

01:08:38  |   Sat 16 Sep 2023
Flash - Saviour Of The Internet - This Week In Retro 138

Flash - Saviour Of The Internet - This Week In Retro 138

This week we are joined by Lee from More Fun Making It and his son Thomas. They are here to tell us about how you can bid for a very special ZX Spectrum and support a good cause. We also take a look …

01:13:21  |   Sat 09 Sep 2023
Why Bother Gaming Past Level 1? - This Week In Retro 137

Why Bother Gaming Past Level 1? - This Week In Retro 137

Get ready for a bumper edition of retro gaming goodness with a new guest! This week we think about those games with memorable first levels, discus the recently announce Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster…

01:27:54  |   Sat 02 Sep 2023
It Is Time To Un-Eliminate CRT Monitors! - This Week In Retro 136

It Is Time To Un-Eliminate CRT Monitors! - This Week In Retro 136

Have you ever thrown away your game boxes only to wish you hadn't? What if we could revive all those dead CRT screens? Did you ever see the DVD player that though it was a gaming console?

All this pl…

00:56:47  |   Sat 26 Aug 2023
Sony get Wiped Out - This Week In Retro 135

Sony get Wiped Out - This Week In Retro 135

The original Wipeout has been reverse engineered and is now playable in your browser. From Ultimate Play The Game to Rare, we look at 40 years of games. Battletech mech games have an awesome article …

01:12:49  |   Sat 19 Aug 2023
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